Sentences with phrase «share buyback program»

The bank also introduced a three - year share buyback program of up to 2 billion Swiss francs.

All of this in a backdrop of CVS being highly acquisitive, continuing to deliver robust earnings growth, revenue growth, growing dividends and has an aggressive share buyback program in place.

All these figures suggest that the dividend growth is pretty safe here and that the dividend growth didn't came from aggressive share buyback programs or aggressive increases in the payout ratio.

While GM tries to seduce investors with shares buyback programs and juicy dividend, I expect low - single digit growth for the future.

Confirmation the recently announced share buyback program has actually commenced would also add some momentum to the recent share price rally.

Share Count Trend You may recall from an earlier display that Amgen has an active share buyback program in place.

It could spend it on a special dividend... It could raise its regular dividend payment... It could announce another massive share buyback program... Or it could do all three.

The bookmaker also announced a 500 million pound share buyback program.

Cramer expected a strong quarter from Waste Management when it reports on Thursday due to its voracious share buyback program and the boost from post-hurricane construction in Florida and Texas.

Nestle, the world's biggest food company and maker of Gerber baby foods and Good Start infant formula, was already seen as likely to win the battle due to its deep pockets after it sold its stake in eyecare group Alcon to Novartis, and has refrained from announcing a new share buyback program.

Worse, large share buyback programs are often little more than cover for shareholder - diluting executive stock options and employee stock purchase plans.

To go along with its 40 - year history of raising the dividend, Medtronic has had ongoing share buyback programs.

Thanks to a big share buyback program the firm still sports a modest amount of revenue - per - share growth over the last three years.

DSR MEMBER ONLY will continue its gigantic share buyback program while we also expect more dividend increases in the future.

Which basically explains the limited size of the GBP 5 mio share buyback program that's actually been announced since.

The positive impact of the Dutch tender was practically negated by the issuance of incentive units, kind of like when management grants themselves options then proceeds with a similar sized share buyback program.

The First Asset Canadian Buyback Index ETF (TSX: FBE) «provides investors with exposure to a portfolio of equity securities of quality companies with active share buyback programs that have significantly and consistently reduced their issued and outstanding share count.»

But tens of billions, per company, will go towards special dividends and massive share buyback programs, dwarfing all else.

An aggressive share buyback program can boost EPS artificially.

In an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, posted to Icahn's website Thursday, he outlined a share buyback program in which Apple would repurchase $ 150 billion of its own stock in order to improve company growth.

«We are now in a position to continue and implement our attractive capital return policy, we increased our ordinary dividend and announcing (a) share buyback program,» Ermotti told CNBC.

And once again, Apple announced Tuesday that it would increase its share buyback program, saying it would return $ 210 billion through March 2019.

Telus said it paid out $ 252 million in dividends in the fourth quarter and spent $ 234 million to repurchase its own shares under its 2015 - 16 share buyback program.

In an interview, Rendle told Fortune the company is looking for its next big deal, even as he said VF would focus on building up its online and international businesses to spur growth, and touted a $ 5 billion share buyback program to boost the stock.

Perhaps most importantly to shareholders, the company has announced that it will add $ 20 billion to its share buyback program and it plans to repurchase about $ 4 billion of shares in the next quarter.

The company also approved a new $ 40 billion share buyback program, reaffirming it's on track to complete its current $ 40 billion stock repurchase program by December 31.

When Apple reports earnings on February 1, he said, the company could announce a $ 70 billion share buyback program and a $ 12 billion dividend.

But Forte believes the company's $ 60 billion share buyback program will provide a solid foundation for the company's continued improvement.

Investment manager SimCorp was also more than 4 percent higher by the close of play after announcing a $ 8.8 million share buyback program.

Dimon added that the bank's «fortress» balance sheet and earnings power allowed for a $ 1.20 per share annual dividend along with the share buyback program.

In a quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, the Cupertino, California - based company said it would put in place a new $ 100 billion share buyback program and increase its quarterly dividend by 16 percent.

Zacks has singled out a share buyback program and an increase in the US Bancorp stock's dividend as factors in the solid performance of the stock year - to - date.

Canada's biggest bank announced relatively flat first - quarter profit Friday, as well as another share buyback program

In addition, the company said it was launching a $ 1 billion share buyback program.

Maestri also said that Apple plans to executive its share buyback program thoughtfully, efficiently, and at a fast pace.

Warren Buffett's conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway said it will launch a share buyback program, an extremely rare move from Buffett that comes after months of investor complaints that the stock was undervalued.

And after the bell tonight, Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) said it was launching a $ 12 billion share buyback program.

Time Warner set a $ 5 billion share buyback program and raised its quarterly dividend on Wednesday to 40.25 cents per share from 35 cents.

Some believe that the majority of the funds ended up with shareholders, either in dividends payouts or share buyback programs.

Canon has also continued its share buyback program, and it has repurchased almost 13 % of outstanding shares since 2005.

However, due to the recently announced $ 69 billion acquisition of US health insurance company Aetna, CVS will neither increase its dividend nor continue its share buyback program for the time being.

The board of directors for Constellation Brands — the high - end maker of Ballast Point and import brands Modelo and Corona — has approved a share buyback program of up to $ 1 billion of the company's common stock.

At the 2018 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, Wolters Kluwer will propose cancelling any or all of the other shares held in treasury or to be acquired under the share buyback program 2016 - 2018.

On Dec. 21, Jiayuan hit an all - time low of $ 5.50, prompting management to announce a share buyback program of up to $ 10M.

The last line in the display, returning cash to shareholders, refers to Amgen's dividend and share buyback programs.

Then, as shown in the following chart, they began a share buyback program that has been steadily reducing the share count annually.

However, the qualitative analysis should seek to uncover if the business is standing face - to - face with industrial challenges (new entrants, intensified competition, decreasing demand, increasing commodity prices etc.), whether it's keeping a tight leash on costs, if there's any expansion plans, if a share buyback program might be launched, or if there's investments in facilities / capabilities in the offing that'll impact free cash flows or similar.

However, due to the recently announced $ 69 billion acquisition of US health insurance company Aetna, CVS will neither increase its dividend nor continue its share buyback program for the time being.